Countries around the world adopted a wide range of fiscal measures in 2020 to mitigate the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of 2021, the outlook on the evolution of...
Economic shocks and crises typically lead to a sharp increase in government expenditure arrears with corrosive effects on the economy. In order to assess the evolution of government expenditure arrears...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic introduced tremendous fiscal pressures for many countries, requiring additional spending to mitigate the health, economic, and social impacts of the pandemic while government...
This report presents: sample selection; policy choices within sample; policy choices across samples; performance within sample; performance across samples; performance across policies; and data.
This country annex provides supplemental information for the joint IMF-WBG G20 Note on the ‘Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) Fiscal Monitoring Update.’ It presents fiscal policy responses of the...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic put significant pressures on fiscal accounts during 2020 through a contraction of revenues and increased spending needs to tackle the pandemic and its economic...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is heavily impacting the world’s poorest countries. The debt service suspension initiative (DSSI) has enabled a fast and coordinated release of additional...